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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I invite all to join us in placing the Pink Ribbon page in their front window for the month of October to keep in mind the battle against Breast Cancer.
Also it wouldn't hurt to contribute to Cancer Research and say a prayer for all of our sisters who are being treated now for the disease and those who live happily after treatment and for those who have lost the battle.
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Great sentiment Gracie!
I just wish that other more deadly diseases were given the same awareness that we give breast cancer. In my practice thus far I see diseases such as diabetes causing far more issues. In fact during 2007 Diabetes was listed as a cause or contributor to death in over 200K cases (
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-bas...es-statistics/) while breast cancer had around 40K in the same year
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/con...fffinalpdf.pdf). And these are only the deaths! The amount of morbidity caused by diabetes is astounding and dwarfs that of breast cancer.
But that's just my rant for the silent majority. I do support the breast cancer foundation and have great empathy for those families that have been afflicted and those that continue to live with the aftermath of this and other horrible cancers.